Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:58:05 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Troubles Message-ID: <35A44DDD.1531CCCB@aei.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980708214131.553O-100000@beacon.synthcom.com>
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Neil Bradley wrote: > > > > > default: > > > > allow users > > > ^^^^^ .. who? > > > allow users takes arguments: which users to allow. > > allow user f00f kaput oooooo > > * f00f, kaput and oooooo are my 3 users who are allowed. > > You also need to add those users in /etc/group under "network" or > > something like that. > > Notice than there is NO "s" in the word "user". > > Yup. Got past that part, though I might point out that in the ppp man page > it states: > > "PERMISSIONS > By default, ppp will not run if the invoking user id is not zero. > This may be overridden by using the ``allow users'' command in > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf." > > Hence the confusion. > > However, now that I'm past that, I get a message in my /var/log/messages > file saying: > > Jul 8 18:14:52 beacon ppp[756]: Warning: OpenTunnel: No such file or > directory > > But the thing is that I *DO* have a tun0 device, and nothing else is using > it. In fact, I also created a tun1 thru tun3 (and all devices report > tun(x):flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500" as it should), but no > matter what I do, I get this error. > > This is user ppp, and I'm attempting to use it in -direct mode with 2.2.6. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -->Neil > I know that do confusion. But dont know why it work without the "s" for me. Anyone have info on that? -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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